03-24-2012, 09:13 AM
Did you know that you can find most of the tools you need for SEO for free?
And.. what´s even more awesome, they are often better than their paid counterparts.
You don´t believe me? Well.. here we go
1. SeoTools for Excel
SeoTools is an Excel add-in that adds a bunch of useful functions for working with SEO and other web metrics directly in Excel.
For example you can use SeoTools for:
Onpage analysis and debugging
Create your own SEO scorecard/report
Monitor and analyze back links
Scrape any website or web service and get data directly into Excel
Domain research
String templating
Get any data out of Google Analytics
Monitor social media efforts
Avoid duplicate content when writing texts
Download: http://nielsbosma.se/projects/seotools
2. Screaming Frog SEO Spider
The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a small desktop program you can install on your PC or Mac which spiders websites’ links, images, CSS, script and apps from an SEO perspective. It fetches key onsite page elements for SEO, presents them in tabs by type and allows you to filter for common SEO issues, or slice and dice the data how you see fit by exporting into Excel. You can view, analyse and filter the crawl data as it’s gathered and updated continuously in the program’s user interface.
The standard ‘Lite’ version of the tool is completely free, however this version is limited to crawling a maximum of 500 URI and it does not give you full access to the configuration options of the spider or the custom source code feature.
Download: http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
3. Quix
Quix is an extensible bookmarklet, that allows you to easily access all your bookmarks and bookmarklets, across all your browsers, while maintaining them in only one spot. All you have to do is remember the shortcut for the bookmarklet, so, basically, it’s like a command line for your browser!
Download: http://www.quixapp.com
4. SEOQuake
SEOquake is a popular and handy analytic seo-tool for Firefox, Chrome and Opera browsers. SEOquake helps to obtain an information about any site for a wide range of parameters such as page rank, Google index, Alexa and many others. Keyword Density tool serves to demonstrate a number of times a keyword or phrase appears on a web page. SEOquake has a parameter that highlights noffolow links.
SEOquake Toolbar shows values of the parameters under each search result in SERP of Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yandex, Baidu.
Download: http://www.seoquake.com
5. Firebug
Inspect HTML and modify style and layout in real-time
Use the most advanced JavaScript debugger available for any browser
Accurately analyze network usage and performance
Extend Firebug and add features to make Firebug even more powerful
Get the information you need to get it done with Firebug.
Download: http://getfirebug.com
6. XPathBuilder
The importXML feature within the Google Docs spreadsheet is an extremely useful tool for SEOs looking for a quick way to pull in search engine results for analysis. Similar functions are available in Microsoft Excel, but Google Docs has the virtue of being both cloud-based and free of charge.
http://www.xpathbuilder.com/
7. Bookmarklets
A javascript bookmarklet is a small piece of javascript code that you can execute in your browser by bookmarking a link. I have a huge collection which I use daily.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/some-nift...more-efficient
8. Hashtags.org
Hashtags.org offers a simple interface to search for hashtags and their trending popularity. For example, if you search on the hashtag #business, Hashtags.org will graphically display the times of day and days of the week when the #business hashtag is most popular. If you scroll down below the graph, you’ll also see the latest tweets that include that hashtag
http://hashtags.org/
9. Disable personalized search plugin
This plugin prevents you from seeing personalized search results, when searching from your browser"s search box. In Firefox, this plugin also adds suggest functionality.
http://yoast.com/tools/seo/disable-p...search-plugin/
10. Google SERP Snippet Optimization Tool
The main purpose of the SERP Snippet Optimization Tool is to allow webmasters and content publishers to strategically construct page titles and meta description tags that will result in aesthetically-pleasing or eye-catching listings in Google's organic search results. Using this tool, you can optimize the content of your titles and snippets to maximize your click-through rate (CTR) from Google.
http://www.seomofo.com/snippet-optimizer.html
11. CuteRank
CuteRank is a FREE keyword rank checker tool (software) designed to batch automatically check keyword positions and track keyword ranking performance on multiple search engines including Google, Yahoo, Bing (MSN), Ask, and AOL. What’s more, this free keyword rank checker allows you to keep your SEO notes and see how your keyword position improves with your SEO effort. You can also generate keyword position report in multiple formats.
http://www.cuterank.net
12. Blekko Toolbar
blekko doesn’t believe in keeping secrets. To help make search more transparent, we provide a view of the data that our crawler gathers as it crawls the web.
Every blekko search result has this data associated with it in a manner that you can see. You can access it by either clicking on the SEO link tool in the second line of each result or else searching with the /seo slashtag.
The information included on the /seo pages includes inbound links, states and countries where the links are coming from, domains with duplicate content, when the site was last crawled, etc.
http://blekko.com/toolbar
13. Excellent Analytics
Excellent Analytics is a simple Excel plug-in that lets you import web analytics data from Google Analytics into a spreadsheet. It’s an open source project and 100% free to download and use for individuals and businesses. Ampliofy generously spends time keeping Excellent Analytics on the market.
http://excellentanalytics.com/
14. Drop My Link
Use these different Google queries to find thousands of sites to drop your links on and create backlinks.
http://dropmylink.com/
15. BlogBot Express
BlogBot Express is a new web 2.0 account creator and content submitter which features:
Web 2.0 account creation and verification
Article submission
Proxies (public and private)
Single threaded
Spinnable text and tokens
The guys behind it are the same people who coded VenomSEO
http://www.embedupload.com/?d=92IKGDYYQG
Download: http://celestialbots.com
16. Übersuggest
Get keyword ideas with Übersuggest the free keyword suggestion tool that makes good use of Google Suggest and other suggest services.
http://ubersuggest.org/
17. Google Keyword Tool - Google Adwords
Google Keyword Tool will help you choose relevant and popular terms related to your selected key-term and display crucial data for your kw research.
18. SEOmoz SEO toolbar
Download the MozBar (available in Firefox and Chrome) and streamline your SEO. The MozBar provides easy access to the most powerful SEO tools and data while you surf the Web!
Access important SEO metrics at a glance as you surf the Web.
Create custom searches by search engine, country, region/city.
Easily see what matters: Highlight no-followed, followed, internal, external links, and keywords.
Compare link metrics for Google, Yahoo! and Bing with our SERP overlay.
Expose page elements quickly with the Analyze Page overlay.
Quickly access other powerful SEO tools.
Download: http://www.seomoz.org/seo-toolbar
19. Open Site Explorer
Search engine for links.Enter a URL and search 65 billion URLs and 9.2 trillion links.
http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/
20. SemRush
Get Google keywords
Get AdWords keywords
See your competitors
Estimated SE and AdWords traffic
Find hidden keywords
Order custom reports
http://www.semrush.com
21. RoboForm
Fill forms with a Single Click Save time with easy one-click form filling. Let RoboForm Password Manager fill in your data on almost any web form. No more needless typing!
Download: http://www.roboform.com
22. Latent Semantic Indexing
LSIKeywords.com takes all of the complexity out of doing a Latent Semantic analysis. Simply type your keyword or phrase on the home p
http://lsikeywords.com/
23. DropDay
DropDay was created for people, who are interested in purchasing expired domains and people, who are interested in receiving additional traffic to their website.
The huge amount of domains that are expiring each day, are a very comfortable instrument to start or enlarge the traffic to your already existing resources.
DropDay.com gives you the opportunity to know which of these domains are worth buying and why.
http://www.dropday.com
24. Robtex
In Robtex you can search for:
DNS checks detailed dns information for a hostname
( http://www.facebook.com , http://www.yahoo.com , http://www.youtube.com )
IP-number checks ip number information such as dns reverse and forwards
A-net checks an entire a-network
B-net checks an entire b-network
C-net checks an entire c-network
whois lookup checks whois information for a domain
route checks a specific routed prefix
AS numbers checks information on an AS-number
BGP announcements checks prefixes origined from a specific AS-number
AS macros checks who belongs to an AS-macro
http://www.robtex.com/
And.. what´s even more awesome, they are often better than their paid counterparts.
You don´t believe me? Well.. here we go
1. SeoTools for Excel
SeoTools is an Excel add-in that adds a bunch of useful functions for working with SEO and other web metrics directly in Excel.
For example you can use SeoTools for:
Onpage analysis and debugging
Create your own SEO scorecard/report
Monitor and analyze back links
Scrape any website or web service and get data directly into Excel
Domain research
String templating
Get any data out of Google Analytics
Monitor social media efforts
Avoid duplicate content when writing texts
Download: http://nielsbosma.se/projects/seotools
2. Screaming Frog SEO Spider
The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a small desktop program you can install on your PC or Mac which spiders websites’ links, images, CSS, script and apps from an SEO perspective. It fetches key onsite page elements for SEO, presents them in tabs by type and allows you to filter for common SEO issues, or slice and dice the data how you see fit by exporting into Excel. You can view, analyse and filter the crawl data as it’s gathered and updated continuously in the program’s user interface.
The standard ‘Lite’ version of the tool is completely free, however this version is limited to crawling a maximum of 500 URI and it does not give you full access to the configuration options of the spider or the custom source code feature.
Download: http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
3. Quix
Quix is an extensible bookmarklet, that allows you to easily access all your bookmarks and bookmarklets, across all your browsers, while maintaining them in only one spot. All you have to do is remember the shortcut for the bookmarklet, so, basically, it’s like a command line for your browser!
Download: http://www.quixapp.com
4. SEOQuake
SEOquake is a popular and handy analytic seo-tool for Firefox, Chrome and Opera browsers. SEOquake helps to obtain an information about any site for a wide range of parameters such as page rank, Google index, Alexa and many others. Keyword Density tool serves to demonstrate a number of times a keyword or phrase appears on a web page. SEOquake has a parameter that highlights noffolow links.
SEOquake Toolbar shows values of the parameters under each search result in SERP of Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yandex, Baidu.
Download: http://www.seoquake.com
5. Firebug
Inspect HTML and modify style and layout in real-time
Use the most advanced JavaScript debugger available for any browser
Accurately analyze network usage and performance
Extend Firebug and add features to make Firebug even more powerful
Get the information you need to get it done with Firebug.
Download: http://getfirebug.com
6. XPathBuilder
The importXML feature within the Google Docs spreadsheet is an extremely useful tool for SEOs looking for a quick way to pull in search engine results for analysis. Similar functions are available in Microsoft Excel, but Google Docs has the virtue of being both cloud-based and free of charge.
http://www.xpathbuilder.com/
7. Bookmarklets
A javascript bookmarklet is a small piece of javascript code that you can execute in your browser by bookmarking a link. I have a huge collection which I use daily.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/some-nift...more-efficient
8. Hashtags.org
Hashtags.org offers a simple interface to search for hashtags and their trending popularity. For example, if you search on the hashtag #business, Hashtags.org will graphically display the times of day and days of the week when the #business hashtag is most popular. If you scroll down below the graph, you’ll also see the latest tweets that include that hashtag
http://hashtags.org/
9. Disable personalized search plugin
This plugin prevents you from seeing personalized search results, when searching from your browser"s search box. In Firefox, this plugin also adds suggest functionality.
http://yoast.com/tools/seo/disable-p...search-plugin/
10. Google SERP Snippet Optimization Tool
The main purpose of the SERP Snippet Optimization Tool is to allow webmasters and content publishers to strategically construct page titles and meta description tags that will result in aesthetically-pleasing or eye-catching listings in Google's organic search results. Using this tool, you can optimize the content of your titles and snippets to maximize your click-through rate (CTR) from Google.
http://www.seomofo.com/snippet-optimizer.html
11. CuteRank
CuteRank is a FREE keyword rank checker tool (software) designed to batch automatically check keyword positions and track keyword ranking performance on multiple search engines including Google, Yahoo, Bing (MSN), Ask, and AOL. What’s more, this free keyword rank checker allows you to keep your SEO notes and see how your keyword position improves with your SEO effort. You can also generate keyword position report in multiple formats.
http://www.cuterank.net
12. Blekko Toolbar
blekko doesn’t believe in keeping secrets. To help make search more transparent, we provide a view of the data that our crawler gathers as it crawls the web.
Every blekko search result has this data associated with it in a manner that you can see. You can access it by either clicking on the SEO link tool in the second line of each result or else searching with the /seo slashtag.
The information included on the /seo pages includes inbound links, states and countries where the links are coming from, domains with duplicate content, when the site was last crawled, etc.
http://blekko.com/toolbar
13. Excellent Analytics
Excellent Analytics is a simple Excel plug-in that lets you import web analytics data from Google Analytics into a spreadsheet. It’s an open source project and 100% free to download and use for individuals and businesses. Ampliofy generously spends time keeping Excellent Analytics on the market.
http://excellentanalytics.com/
14. Drop My Link
Use these different Google queries to find thousands of sites to drop your links on and create backlinks.
http://dropmylink.com/
15. BlogBot Express
BlogBot Express is a new web 2.0 account creator and content submitter which features:
Web 2.0 account creation and verification
Article submission
Proxies (public and private)
Single threaded
Spinnable text and tokens
The guys behind it are the same people who coded VenomSEO
http://www.embedupload.com/?d=92IKGDYYQG
Download: http://celestialbots.com
16. Übersuggest
Get keyword ideas with Übersuggest the free keyword suggestion tool that makes good use of Google Suggest and other suggest services.
http://ubersuggest.org/
17. Google Keyword Tool - Google Adwords
Google Keyword Tool will help you choose relevant and popular terms related to your selected key-term and display crucial data for your kw research.
18. SEOmoz SEO toolbar
Download the MozBar (available in Firefox and Chrome) and streamline your SEO. The MozBar provides easy access to the most powerful SEO tools and data while you surf the Web!
Access important SEO metrics at a glance as you surf the Web.
Create custom searches by search engine, country, region/city.
Easily see what matters: Highlight no-followed, followed, internal, external links, and keywords.
Compare link metrics for Google, Yahoo! and Bing with our SERP overlay.
Expose page elements quickly with the Analyze Page overlay.
Quickly access other powerful SEO tools.
Download: http://www.seomoz.org/seo-toolbar
19. Open Site Explorer
Search engine for links.Enter a URL and search 65 billion URLs and 9.2 trillion links.
http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/
20. SemRush
Get Google keywords
Get AdWords keywords
See your competitors
Estimated SE and AdWords traffic
Find hidden keywords
Order custom reports
http://www.semrush.com
21. RoboForm
Fill forms with a Single Click Save time with easy one-click form filling. Let RoboForm Password Manager fill in your data on almost any web form. No more needless typing!
Download: http://www.roboform.com
22. Latent Semantic Indexing
LSIKeywords.com takes all of the complexity out of doing a Latent Semantic analysis. Simply type your keyword or phrase on the home p
http://lsikeywords.com/
23. DropDay
DropDay was created for people, who are interested in purchasing expired domains and people, who are interested in receiving additional traffic to their website.
The huge amount of domains that are expiring each day, are a very comfortable instrument to start or enlarge the traffic to your already existing resources.
DropDay.com gives you the opportunity to know which of these domains are worth buying and why.
http://www.dropday.com
24. Robtex
In Robtex you can search for:
DNS checks detailed dns information for a hostname
( http://www.facebook.com , http://www.yahoo.com , http://www.youtube.com )
IP-number checks ip number information such as dns reverse and forwards
A-net checks an entire a-network
B-net checks an entire b-network
C-net checks an entire c-network
whois lookup checks whois information for a domain
route checks a specific routed prefix
AS numbers checks information on an AS-number
BGP announcements checks prefixes origined from a specific AS-number
AS macros checks who belongs to an AS-macro
http://www.robtex.com/